British and Proud
05-11-2009, 08:44 PM
The Five Rukes Of Propaganda
Here are five basic rules of propaganda, courtesy of Norman Davies in his extraordinary book "Europe: A History":
The rule of simplification: reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe' (or even 'Right and Wrong' (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6261535.ece) as published in today's Times).
The rule of disfiguration: discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
The rule of transfusion: manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
The rule of unanimity: presenting one's viewpoint as if it were the unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure, and by 'psychological contagion'.
The rule of orchestration: endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IsIVb_6uIco/Sghs_PoYkiI/AAAAAAAAAMs/U7wDl_e-Imo/s1600/HOPENOTSLANDER3.jpg
What amazes me about the media's portrayal of the BNP is that we are sometimes shown to be monosyllabic knuckle-draggers, incapable of complex thought and thus unable to see the benefits of multiculturalism and a racially plural society. This neanderthal image is constantly perpetuated by the media, and best summarised by Michael Howard's description of us as "thugs in suits".
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IsIVb_6uIco/Sgh5BdEUSZI/AAAAAAAAAM0/CCuqDANWGbc/s1600/kirkleesunity.jpg
I found the above image whilst perusing one of the Unity blogs looking for material to illustrate my point, and I think it does so perfectly. Naturally the character has to carry the swastika flag, as this adds to the stigma - knuckle-dragging, faeces for brains and a Nazi. Is this not a crude smear? Disfiguration?
Alternatively, however, we are also portrayed as glib and highly plausible tricksters out to 'exploit' the recession or Islamic extremism or public fury over MPs' expenses - as though this is somehow immoral.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IsIVb_6uIco/SgiB2zkCLEI/AAAAAAAAAM8/F6qqsrVM41w/s1600/BNPexploits....jpg
To quote James Gibb Stuart from The Hidden Menace:
Democracy breaks down - or at best can only function ineffectually - where its information sources are tampered with, and coercion, intimidation and vested interest carry too much influence in the presentation of the news.
This is why when Jeremy Paxman claimed on Newsnight that the electorate had effectively embraced multiculturalism because they had not voted for a party like the BNP en masse, he was being disingenuous. When the newspapers, magazines and television media deliberately distort the BNP's message and portray their members as sinister and wicked, then it's no wonder that the public have not given us the mandate that I believe they would have otherwise done. The public rely upon the media as a source of information, the media shapes public opinion and decides the outcome of elections.
To quote Enoch Powell:
The people of this country are told that they must feel neither alarm nor objection to a West Indian, African and Asian population which will rise to several millions being introduced into this country. If they do, they are 'prejudiced', 'racialist'... A current situation, and a future prospect, which only a few years ago would have appeared to everyone not merely intolerable but frankly incredible, has to be represented as if welcomed by all rational and right-thinking people.
I shall end by quoting James Gibb Stuart once more:
If the Protocols are to be accepted at their face value - and they have of course been viciously attacked as a plagiarisms and a forgery - there were devious intelligences at least a hundred years ago who had already anticipated a state of affairs under which potential power seekers would manipulate the masses by bringing control all organs of the popular press under their own effective control.
The purpose? It had to be some drastic restructuring of society which would be rejected out of hand by free peoples if the issues were fairly and honestly presented.
Here are five basic rules of propaganda, courtesy of Norman Davies in his extraordinary book "Europe: A History":
The rule of simplification: reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe' (or even 'Right and Wrong' (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6261535.ece) as published in today's Times).
The rule of disfiguration: discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
The rule of transfusion: manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
The rule of unanimity: presenting one's viewpoint as if it were the unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure, and by 'psychological contagion'.
The rule of orchestration: endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IsIVb_6uIco/Sghs_PoYkiI/AAAAAAAAAMs/U7wDl_e-Imo/s1600/HOPENOTSLANDER3.jpg
What amazes me about the media's portrayal of the BNP is that we are sometimes shown to be monosyllabic knuckle-draggers, incapable of complex thought and thus unable to see the benefits of multiculturalism and a racially plural society. This neanderthal image is constantly perpetuated by the media, and best summarised by Michael Howard's description of us as "thugs in suits".
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IsIVb_6uIco/Sgh5BdEUSZI/AAAAAAAAAM0/CCuqDANWGbc/s1600/kirkleesunity.jpg
I found the above image whilst perusing one of the Unity blogs looking for material to illustrate my point, and I think it does so perfectly. Naturally the character has to carry the swastika flag, as this adds to the stigma - knuckle-dragging, faeces for brains and a Nazi. Is this not a crude smear? Disfiguration?
Alternatively, however, we are also portrayed as glib and highly plausible tricksters out to 'exploit' the recession or Islamic extremism or public fury over MPs' expenses - as though this is somehow immoral.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IsIVb_6uIco/SgiB2zkCLEI/AAAAAAAAAM8/F6qqsrVM41w/s1600/BNPexploits....jpg
To quote James Gibb Stuart from The Hidden Menace:
Democracy breaks down - or at best can only function ineffectually - where its information sources are tampered with, and coercion, intimidation and vested interest carry too much influence in the presentation of the news.
This is why when Jeremy Paxman claimed on Newsnight that the electorate had effectively embraced multiculturalism because they had not voted for a party like the BNP en masse, he was being disingenuous. When the newspapers, magazines and television media deliberately distort the BNP's message and portray their members as sinister and wicked, then it's no wonder that the public have not given us the mandate that I believe they would have otherwise done. The public rely upon the media as a source of information, the media shapes public opinion and decides the outcome of elections.
To quote Enoch Powell:
The people of this country are told that they must feel neither alarm nor objection to a West Indian, African and Asian population which will rise to several millions being introduced into this country. If they do, they are 'prejudiced', 'racialist'... A current situation, and a future prospect, which only a few years ago would have appeared to everyone not merely intolerable but frankly incredible, has to be represented as if welcomed by all rational and right-thinking people.
I shall end by quoting James Gibb Stuart once more:
If the Protocols are to be accepted at their face value - and they have of course been viciously attacked as a plagiarisms and a forgery - there were devious intelligences at least a hundred years ago who had already anticipated a state of affairs under which potential power seekers would manipulate the masses by bringing control all organs of the popular press under their own effective control.
The purpose? It had to be some drastic restructuring of society which would be rejected out of hand by free peoples if the issues were fairly and honestly presented.